At long last, something new in my Youtube channel! (it's true! WHAT? Madness!).
Not since Octiber have I uploaded something. Whoops. No worries. More of these videos will come along. And MAYBE I'll do some vlogs in the future again.


Enjoy! :)

Got questions? Feel free to ask whatever whenever at my formspring: http://www.formspring.me/acrylicana
I find it easiest to have everything in one place. It's like an interactive FAQ.

Current progress of shoe commissions:

I've been neglecting ye olde blog. And ye olde gallery. And ye olde "creating new finished pieces'.
I  have a lot of stuff in progress. a whole huge mess of it. tons and tons and I'd LOVE to show you each and every bit of that in progress stuff, but I won't just yet. Soon, dearies, soon. I need to take time and sketch more, but as of late it's all been things for work: clients, wholesale orders, shop stuff, shoe commissions (technically they're back open again, but working on two right now for a couple ladies who are SO fabulous that thy got first dibs), and...TAXES!

Mo-Fo-in' taxes. I'm hideous at being organized. Yes. Hideous. Just oh so awful at it. This is well apparent if you ever saw where I live. you will not, of course, as that would turn everyone away in fear. "WHAT ARE ALL OF THESE BOXES!?" Supplies, for the most part. Thing sin progress. Things for other things in progress soon. And paperwork. And papers. And old things that need to be given away or sold or whatever (oh, Salvation Army needs a MEGA donation from me very soon).

So yes, I'm currently trying to work on work-work daily as well as prepare for filing all of my taxes (I say "all of" b/c there's multiple business forms and then my personal forms as well -- oy vey!). So far I'm up to the end of July in organizing spreadsheets with my sales receipts. HOME STRETCH! (sort of).
Just a matter of data input. Should be done within a week, tbh. By then, my checks will have arrived, I'll have printed out all of my forms, filled them in, and I'll be ready to run over the a TAX MAN to look over my work.

And then I can breathe again.

The major thing this has done, which I should have been doing all along, but did only a bit of then put aside while I was swamped with work and very keen on procrastination (never again..as I always say..good motto), is show me just how much is input and how much is output. Also it show just how much I have to invest in this year. Last year was technically my first of real business. Proper, full-time, business. So it makes good sense that a large portion of things are investments. Usually people get a small loan for such. It was swell to be able to fund it myself. And now I know what I have to do to continue.

This may include raising prices here and there as well as offering more product or different things. I'm able to break sales down with spreadsheets and see what items are the most popular as well as what's just a bad idea.

MATHS tells me everything.

So yeah. I'l be back full force soon.
also, darlings, please stop bugging me about vlogs. I get messages a few times a week asking when I'll babble to a camera again. I'm not sure I really want to, and just don't have the time right now. I DO want to have more on my Youtube account, but not of a vlogging nature ;)

It's DOODLE Thursday! That's right! Every Thursday DOODLES do not appear here. This is the only time they have! I haven't actually checked what else has been posted here on a thursday.

I love highlighters. This has nothing to do with the DOODLES. I just was excited that I could highlight my virtual words.